Blue Springs Junior High School - Wildcats Yearbook (Blue Springs, MO)

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During history, Mrs. Hughes classes learn the fundamentals af law. ln general business, students learn to write checks and balance checkbaaks. r , f Worm. . quq My W nf M 7 f ,...1 fr ff ..: ff , 2' 45 X7 L ,W - in A., vs A I f ' A +fu .f ' Robyn Ratcllff Robyn Hatcllff LUhile in Mrs. Beatty 's history class, students play a simulation country game. The object is to make peace with the other countries. atcHff Robyn H Robyn Hatcllff we Mfrs... :fr ' ff? 1.2 i E1 C A , ,, i' '- a M... ' I MC , L H7 I Jimflgmin i in . V ..5 , 1 he 'J'1'f g i Ze. Students learn to sew during home living. 5 .yew ..c-vsmsmw . z J . , 5 fy f if-I V- 2 , A...- garne. History was everywhere. lt wossfaround with the Flztecs and it was around with the new 2-2-2 buildings. Some students expressed their feelings toward history: Historyiis a key to our learning experience. lf there were no history, where would we be today?, commented Hier- sten Holman. LUhat we do today is what they learn in the future, said Christy Hass. Jenni Richardson Commented, LUithout history no one would be remembered. 'i History is the key to the future. David Ecton r HOME LIVING 44 Classes Mrs. Jeanine Davis, Chair . ' Fist you walk down the hall, you might hear the humming of sewing machines, or the smell of various foods cooking. Those sounds and smells are things that come from the y two home living rooms at BSJH. Sewingfgroomlng is taught by Mrs. Davis. She teaches both 8th and 9th grade classes. lt is a se- mester class that students enjoy. She teaches how to manage your wardrobe and to learn interior dec- orating. Other activities that stu- dents learned how to make were: pillows, locker cadies, an article of clothing and a quilted pillow. Mrs. Davis said, Home living helps in the development of the learning pro- cess, lncluding decision making. goal setting and accepting respon- sibility through practicol applica- tion. y ' Mrs. Rains taught food fchild care at BSJH. Mrs. Olberding also taught one hour of 8th grade foodfchild core. It also was a semester class for 8th and 9th graders. Foodfchild care taught how to make funnel cakes, orange juIius', crepes, ome- lets, cookies, candies, fruits, cake decorating, fritters, pasteries, pas- ta, meots, as well os, how to do laundry, how touse o microwave

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Mrs. Frerking gives the signal to begin the game Hide the Bacon in Spanish. 75 S U L.: O I C 5 -O O QI ln French I students made guilnols. Q A b E '5 fr: 5 -D O u: taught Spanish. If you didn't take a foreign lan- guage this year the teachers are looking forward to having you next year. Kelly Holmes. Ulhitney Lllillis GENERHL BUSINESS Mrs. Kathie Reed, Chair General Business was a class of- fered only to freshman. lt is some- thing that everyone will have to deal with in life. as quoted by Mrs. Rita Olberding. Fi student can take Genera! Busi- ness for one year and receive a full credit towards graduation. .ln this Students in Mrs. LUood's English classes worked on children 's short stories. Ms. Mayes writes down German assignments for her student 's notebooks. - class the student learned how the economic system worked, the eco- nomic role of business, his role as a consumer, using banking services the stock market. career explora- tion bookkeeping, and several oth- er things. The class was offered to stu- dents of all learning levels. lt was an opportunity that shouldn't be passed up because of all of the useful information received by tak- ing thiis class. .f LUendy Havens HISTORY Mrs. I'-lnita Crowley and Mrs. Patty Davide, Co-chairs Davide, Co-chairs. i - Y History. The study of manfs past. History was like a whole other world. Open a book. and you were a part of it, BSJH history teachers didn't just teach us: they madeus feel like we were a part of history. History class taught us everything from the flrst Flmericans to the early l970's. Many of the M teachers taught their students with simula- tions and games. Some 8th graders went through a mock trial and later explored and set up colonies. The stock market crash of 1929 was er- perienced for the first time forthe 9th graders through a simulated Classes

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w Z O - LD Z I- V1 CE .J IMPRESSION lllith all of the teachers at BSJH not many of us notices when a new teacher happens to appear. This year BSJH has added three new . teachers to it's staff. j Mr. Hosick teaches 9th grade . physical science. Mr. Hosick went to i college at the University of Missouri- Q Columbia. He has taught school for l four years and has taught grades . from kindergarten and up. He has I I also taught physical education and health. Other districts he has taught 2 in are Rolla for 2 years and in the St. I Louis area for I year. lllhile in Mr. Ho- I sick's class if there is one thing he j would like to get across to his stu- ! dents it would be learning is an ob- I vious experience. Ms. Mayes teaches German I 2 and French l. She teaches both 8th 5 and 9th grade. She went to college I E. and howto set the tableicorrectly. I I l-lome living is trying to improve the qualiity of life by teaching basic Ilfe skills. stated Mrs. Rains. I Home living iis a class to help stu- dents prepare for life in the future. Tonya Bonkus I INDUSTRIFII. RRTS ' Mr. Rashid Makhdoom, Chair . If a student wanted- to be in- volved in technology in the future. the class he could have taken was industrial arts. There he learned the basic steps of technology and how to use them. It showed him respon- sibility and brought out his basic at Central Missouri State University in UJarrensburg, Missouri. There she re- ceived her bachelor of science in edu- cation. She has studied French for eight years and German for four years. She has also taught English. Ms. Mayes has taught for 8M years. For six and a half years she taught at Flaymore-Peculiar in Missouri. She also taught for one year at Bucklin, Missouri. I wanted to moveto a big- ger district and I also wanted to move to this part of town. Fis her years continue to grow, she also learns as she is teaching. I would like my stu- dents to learn acceptance and toler- ance of others even though they may come from a different culture and speak a different language. Our third teacher teaches eighth and ninth grade Spanish I. Mrs. Land attended the University of Missouri, Columbia. She attended this college for four years. There she received Skills, , . ' , I In those classes we learned some I skills that we could use for a life-I time. There were four teachersjusti ' waiting to help us. Mr. Makhdoom taught drafting, Mr. Maupin taught metals, Mr. Pumphrey taught wood- shop and Mr. Goldsmith taught electricity. In some of those classes they had projects to complete. Fi few of the projects may have been rather simple, while others were very hard. There were some teach- ers who had been out in the field and then went back to college to get a teaching certificate so they could teach: others had never been Nu-I her degree in Spanish. Mrs. Land also taught in the Os- S awatme School District. Mrs. Land en- joys working with kids and always en- joys something new to teach. The most important thing that Mrs. Land believes that she would want her kids to learn would be for my stu- 1 dents to be open minded to other , cultures, languages, and their ways i of thinking. Q Flmy Coffman 2 I 1 tofappeal to a lot body. I I I The shop realize that in your own. Most ofthe did were started ended up as masterpieces lllhittney lllillis IN-scHooL suspeNsioN.,, C'955??